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  • Textiles: a loom for carpet weaving, cutting with scissors (top), combing the warp threads (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • A Sicilian boy, posing naked outdoors. Photograph, ca.1900, by G. Plüschow.
  • Textiles: a spinning wheel (top), making the design (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • An Indian man smoking a nariel, or cocoa nut hooka. Coloured stipple and line etching, c. 1804, after F. Solvyns.
  • A Sicilian boy, posing naked outdoors, by a doorway. Photograph, ca.1900, by G. Plüschow.
  • Textiles: detail of a loom for tapestry weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Cairo: a coffee-house with men sitting on wooden benches to smoke and drink. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.
  • The Governors of the Hospital for Poor Children, Haarlem. Photogravure after J. de Bray, 1663.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • A Sicilian boy, posing naked outdoors, by a doorway. Photograph, ca.1900, by G. Plüschow.
  • Textiles: a loom with disembodied hands weaving, the design pinned to the top beam. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: two patterns for embroidery (top), a woman winding thread (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: types of mechanical carpet loom. Engraving by J. Moffat after J. Duncan.
  • Textiles: a loom for [stair?] carpet weaving, elevations (top), details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: carpet weaving, a loom in an interior (top), tools (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: a loom for carpet weaving, plan (top), details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • A young Jewish woman with long-crowned turban kneels on a mat smoking opium. Engraving, c. 1702.
  • Christ enters Jerusalem on an ass. Etching by F.P. Massau after J.F. Overbeck, 1849.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • A Mandarin sits on a mat, smoking a long opium pipe. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely, c. 1820.
  • Textiles: a mechanical carpet loom, three-quarter view, with spectators. Engraving, c.1862.
  • Textiles: a man looping cord around three dowels (top), details of the dowels and chain (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: threads on a loom for tapestry weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: the use of the bobbin in tapestry weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.